I'm holding it in my hands

[Ellery Newcomer]

On 06/05/2010 04:15 PM, Justin Johansson wrote:
> Ellery Newcomer wrote:
>> On 06/05/2010 03:42 PM, Justin Johansson wrote:
>>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> http://erdani.com
>>>>
>>>> Don't worry, it's SFW :o).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Andrei
>>>
>>> Congratulations. I must say that I really like the cover design.
>>> Certainly it will stand out from the myriad of O'Reilly programming
>>> books -- the ones which have a white background and usually a picture of
>>> some animal(***) on the cover.
>>>
>>> Of course it is no surprise seeing that there is a foreword written by
>>> Walter Bright but getting Scott Meyers to write one as well is not too
>>> bad. It would be an absolute scream though if it also featured a
>>> foreword by retard :-)
>>
>> With a picture of him.
>>
>> In a straitjacket.
>
> But then Andrei would have had to publish the book through O'Reilly
> instead of Addison-Wesley so that the O'Reilly-trademarked white
> background and the usual picture theme (*** as mentioned above) could be
> used for the cover design. :-)
>
>

I've often wondered what kind of animal O'Reilly would use for D. That 
they would instead use a restrained Haskell programmer sputtering his 
disapproval...

retard, apologies.